"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Why must you say goodbye
Why don't you stay a while
All of the time will fly
You only make me smile
Come on now
Stay a while
Please don't you go away too far
You make me smile
Give me just one more day
Baby, stay
Baby, stay
Always been racing through
Every day pushing in
Listen now, me and you
Wont you say you feel it too
Come on now
You're wondering
when it might settle in
Give us time
Day and night hoping and wondering
Why must you say goodbye
Why don't you stay a while
All of the time will fly
You only make me smile
Come on now
Stay a while
Please don't you go away too far
You make me smile
Give me just one more day
Baby, stay
Used to be 2 years old
Little girl stumbling through the world
And every day was ours to give away
But it's a crying game
Rigged and a real shame
The way the time goes by
How could it find us here?
Why must you say goodbye
Why don't you stay a while
All of the time will fly
You only make me smile
Come on now
Stay a while
Please don't you go away too far
You make me smile
Give me just one more day
Baby, stay
Why don't you stay a while
All of the time will fly
You only make me smile
Come on now
Stay a while
Please don't you go away too far
You make me smile
Give me just one more day
Baby, stay
Baby, stay
Always been racing through
Every day pushing in
Listen now, me and you
Wont you say you feel it too
Come on now
You're wondering
when it might settle in
Give us time
Day and night hoping and wondering
Why must you say goodbye
Why don't you stay a while
All of the time will fly
You only make me smile
Come on now
Stay a while
Please don't you go away too far
You make me smile
Give me just one more day
Baby, stay
Used to be 2 years old
Little girl stumbling through the world
And every day was ours to give away
But it's a crying game
Rigged and a real shame
The way the time goes by
How could it find us here?
Why must you say goodbye
Why don't you stay a while
All of the time will fly
You only make me smile
Come on now
Stay a while
Please don't you go away too far
You make me smile
Give me just one more day
Baby, stay
Lyrics submitted by JakeAviator
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